The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Harmeet Dhillon & Bill Essayli ｜ 5⧸24⧸24

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00:00:09.820 We have Harmeet Dillon on to talk to us, not only give us some good news,

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00:03:37.780 Let's say hello to Harmeet Dillon.

00:03:40.180 She's the founder and CEO of the Center for American Liberty, also a civil rights attorney.

00:03:46.320 Welcome, Harmeet.

00:03:46.940 How are you?

00:03:48.020 I'm great.

00:03:48.720 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

00:03:50.000 You bet.

00:03:50.500 First of all, let's start with some good news.

00:03:53.600 Federal court has made a ruling that has overturned what Nancy Pelosi put in.

00:04:01.100 Tell me the story.

00:04:05.140 Maybe I'm on the...

00:04:06.380 Maybe I'm not.

00:04:07.960 The federal court with the allowing prayer on the steps of the Capitol, wasn't that Nancy Pelosi?

00:04:12.780 I'm sorry.

00:04:13.340 Yeah, absolutely.

00:04:14.640 So the federal court, after three years of litigation, has ruled that in our lawsuit on behalf of Reverend Patrick Mahoney,

00:04:23.700 that the ban on prayer in the Capitol perimeter is unconstitutional and needs to be permanently enjoined.

00:04:34.980 Now, when we had the perimeter put up around the Capitol that Nancy Pelosi's orders, that prevented people from praying in what was typically known as a public area for prayer, for demonstration, etc.

00:04:53.780 So that perimeter barred Reverend Patrick Mahoney, who has come many times to D.C. to pray for the country, pray for the troops, pray for the people who need salvation,

00:05:07.260 which, as we all know, definitely D.C. is the hottest, hottest concentration of those people who need that prayer.

00:05:15.120 Oh, I thought you were going to say hottest, hottest ring of hell, but...

00:05:17.780 There's that, too.

00:05:19.620 There's that, too.

00:05:21.600 But what's striking, Glenn, is at the same time, members of Congress had actually been allowed throughout the last three years to hold demonstrations there.

00:05:33.700 So, for example, Cori Bush has had sit-ins there to protest the police and to call for cutting police funding. 0.73

00:05:43.960 And so...

00:05:45.140 Well, wait, wait, wait, I'm not even sure I understand that.

00:05:47.300 So, you couldn't organize one as a private individual, but if a congressman or a senator wanted to organize a group of people to come and protest, that could happen.

00:05:58.660 That's correct.

00:06:00.000 Unbelievable.

00:06:00.560 And so, you know, but this just smacks of what all of us have experienced as citizens, which is that there's one set of rules for the elites, and they can do whatever they want, including on our people's house.

00:06:15.280 And we can't access it for purposes that are protected by the First Amendment.

00:06:21.140 So, we filed this lawsuit after Reverend Mahoney was barred from praying there on the Capitol steps, something that he's done many times over the years.

00:06:29.720 And then the court denied it time after time after time.

00:06:34.240 And finally, last week, we got this positive ruling with a permanent injunction saying the ban on prayer on the Capitol steps was unconstitutional.

00:06:43.360 And it doesn't just benefit our client.

00:06:45.440 It benefits all Americans who want to access these traditional First Amendment forums.

00:06:50.620 So, I'm really proud of that.

00:06:51.620 And can we protest on those, peacefully protest as well on those steps?

00:06:55.940 Yeah.

00:06:56.100 You have to get a permit, which is appropriate in a mixed-use area like that.

00:07:02.100 We have to let the people in Congress also access the steps.

00:07:06.240 But it is no longer going to be the case that members of Congress can have die-ins and sit-ins and lie-ins there while the rest of us have to just stand outside the fence with our noses pressed against it.

00:07:16.820 So, there was a district, a D.C. federal court?

00:07:21.280 Yes, that's right.

00:07:22.260 And it's one of those same judges who's repeatedly ruled against the January 6th folks and, you know, kind of been – we had three years of negative rulings from this judge.

00:07:34.840 And then, boom, on our motion for summary judgment, we did win it.

00:07:38.240 So, really proud of that victory.

00:07:39.440 And do you think it will go to the Supreme Court?

00:07:42.940 There's a chance that the Capitol Police will appeal it to the D.C. Circuit.

00:07:47.900 And so, the D.C. Circuit would be the first court to rule on it if they do that.

00:07:54.120 And, you know, the judge, however, has left very little room for any argument on the First Amendment.

00:08:00.860 He cited – and, you know, it took us three years to get there with him.

00:08:04.040 Yeah.

00:08:04.200 I don't think it's a ruling that's capable of much – to be frank.

00:08:10.420 But, yes, it is possible that it goes to the Supreme Court if one of the parties isn't satisfied with how the D.C. Circuit rules if there's an appeal.

00:08:20.900 Harmeet, let me – we're talking to Harmeet Dillon.

00:08:23.100 She's with Liberty Center.

00:08:24.600 LibertyCenter.org is the website you can go to.

00:08:27.260 They do a lot of great work and I know would appreciate your support.

00:08:31.200 But, Harmeet, tell me what you think is coming in the Donald Trump trials.

00:08:38.480 I know it has now been indefinitely suspended down in Florida, I think officially yesterday or the day before.

00:08:45.280 The case in New York is just sheer craziness.

00:08:49.700 I talked to Alan Dershowitz yesterday and what he has seen – I mean, I'm hoping there's at least one person on the jury that just won't give and say, I'm not playing this game.

00:09:01.220 But what do you think is going to happen to all of these court cases?

00:09:05.460 So, it looks like the New York case is the only case that's going to go to a jury verdict before the 2024 election, starting with Florida.

00:09:16.440 I think the judge has actually flipped the tables and has actually put the prosecutor on trial at this point.

00:09:23.620 You know, they're effectively asking Jack Smith's team to account for evidence tampering and, you know, bias and selective prosecution.

00:09:34.620 And this is, I think, the best possible way a case like that could go.

00:09:40.280 And it's appropriate because far too often, Glenn, in our country – you know, I'm obviously in favor of law enforcement, but I'm also, before that, in favor of the Constitution.

00:09:50.580 Far too often what we see here in this country is selective prosecution because lazy lawmakers put too many laws on the books and there's no other –

00:10:00.620 you know, that's what happens when people have so much power and there's no check on it above the courts.

00:10:07.000 And so, you rarely see a judge step up and call to account some of these things.

00:10:10.660 I've seen selective prosecution in pro-life cases where I represent protesters and journalists who are exposing it.

00:10:17.800 I've seen it in other cases like this.

00:10:20.160 We've all seen it.

00:10:20.920 And so, it's wonderful to see that.

00:10:24.020 In D.C., the special counsel's case is likely to have a wrench thrown in it by the Supreme Court over the issue of qualified immunity.

00:10:35.580 And, you know, I think the most likely outcome there in the case is for the court to send it back down to lower courts,

00:10:44.260 either the D.C. Circuit Court or the trial court in D.C., and have them make findings about which of the allegations against President Trump in that case,

00:10:55.800 having to do with, you know, the January 6th issues, concern his conduct as the President of the United States,

00:11:05.320 which is, in my opinion, most if not all of his actions that are alleged, or candidate Trump.

00:11:12.260 And so, that's the same rule that actually was established by the D.C. Circuit Court in a case that I'm handling for President Trump,

00:11:18.480 involving civil lawsuits by other members of Congress and Capitol Police.

00:11:23.220 And then, we have this case in New York, which is absolute miscarriage of justice from beginning to end,

00:11:29.800 starting with selective prosecution.

00:11:32.940 He's being prosecuted for crimes that nobody is prosecuted for, particularly in a city where they're not prosecuting people for anything.

00:11:40.100 It's not a crime that people aren't prosecuted for.

00:11:44.320 I believe, didn't the FEC say, it's not a crime?

00:11:49.700 Well, yeah, I was going to get to that.

00:11:51.520 Oh, okay.

00:11:52.280 I'm sorry.

00:11:52.680 The paperwork part, there's two parts of the supposed crime.

00:11:57.460 We don't know what one part is, because they haven't really laid it out.

00:12:02.340 But the other part is, writing, you know, someone, bookkeeper, whoever makes records,

00:12:09.160 writing down legal expenses in the wrong column.

00:12:12.940 That's the misdemeanor.

00:12:14.540 And it's also beyond the statute of limitations, okay?

00:12:19.300 So, that's two strikes against that claim.

00:12:22.060 They've tried to resurrect that into a live claim by saying that it's in furtherance of some other crime.

00:12:27.800 They haven't, they've been, you know, jumping around as to what that other crime is.

00:12:32.240 Michael Cohen, their star witness,

00:12:34.760 alleged that the crime was trying to affect the outcome of the election and making it a campaign finance expenditure.

00:12:40.780 However, campaign finance experts, I've got, you know, two people, two partners at my firm who work at the FEC.

00:12:47.760 Campaign finance experts, all of them, will tell you it is not a crime to make an expenditure that benefits you personally.

00:12:55.740 And there's no question about that.

00:12:58.880 They didn't allow that expert to say that, though, did they?

00:13:01.980 They didn't allow the expert to say that.

00:13:04.940 That's correct.

00:13:05.520 That was one of the judge's early rulings.

00:13:07.680 And when the expert was finally allowed to testify, the judge, again, limited him to not being able to talk about the federal election law.

00:13:16.120 So, the Trump campaign decided not to call him, after all, because he was basically gagged to the point of not being able to testify on anything.

00:13:23.200 And then you get to this series of rulings by the judge, starting with not recusing himself, as is required by New York law,

00:13:34.700 when his daughter has a financial interest in the outcome of the case.

00:13:38.160 Starting with excluding pro-Trump people from the jury, like Orthodox Jews, by insisting on holding court on Fridays, 0.96

00:13:45.640 when most courts do not meet and have jury sessions on Fridays, excluding witnesses, refusing to throw out charges, excluding evidence,

00:13:56.180 allowing the other side to badger and bring in evidence and stack the jury in their side.

00:14:01.760 So, there have been a number of, I would say, almost on a daily basis, the judge has made rulings that are susceptible to reversal on appeal,

00:14:09.840 including clearing the courtroom and scolding witnesses for President Trump.

00:14:14.800 I mean, there wasn't a day that it didn't just shock the conscience for me as a lawyer in the conduct of this trial.

00:14:21.340 So, what we hope for, Glenn, just as you said, is a single juror, or two jurors, or three jurors,

00:14:28.560 who refuse to go along with this railroading of President Trump.

00:14:32.460 And that would result in a mistrial, a hung jury, and then it would be possible for them to try to retry him.

00:14:39.900 But I just think it's, and by the way, if the judge properly charges the jury,

00:14:45.720 and allows them to go for the misdemeanor only, then he has to dismiss that at the end of the case,

00:14:52.280 because it's beyond the statute of limitations.

00:14:55.080 So, you know, that case is falling apart.

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00:16:36.580 Nellie Bowles.

00:16:37.940 She is a writer living now in Los Angeles.

00:16:42.120 She has won the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalist Award.

00:16:51.600 She is also the wife of Barry Weiss, and the two of them are building the Free Press, a new media company,

00:16:58.460 which has dramatically changed the scene of journalism, and I think, in many ways, brought journalism some hope that maybe truth can return.

00:17:13.440 Nellie, welcome to the program.

00:17:16.060 Thank you so much for having me.

00:17:18.140 This introduction is way too kind, but thank you so much for having me.

00:17:22.200 It's a pleasure to be on.

00:17:23.740 Thank you.

00:17:24.280 I honestly, this is the first time we've spoken, and I don't know how you feel about me or whatever, and it doesn't matter.

00:17:31.640 I just want you to know how much I respect you and Barry.

00:17:37.680 You are truly making a difference.

00:17:41.080 Thank you so much, and I listen to and very much enjoy your work quite often, so that's how I feel.

00:17:53.140 Thank you.

00:17:53.580 So, Nellie, your book, and I just said this to Stu off-air, your book is one that I, I don't know if you know this,

00:18:02.300 but I collect American history, and I'm trying to preserve both the good and the bad in case it ever is lost or destroyed,

00:18:12.460 and I have the third largest collection behind the National Archives in the Library of Congress,

00:18:17.920 and your book is going to be put into our vault because I read something somewhere that said that your book preserves this moment in amber,

00:18:31.860 and it's true.

00:18:34.200 You have, you've come from, quite honestly, I hope I'm describing this right,

00:18:40.280 kind of enjoying canceling people because it was the thing to do,

00:18:45.600 to now looking at things saying, we are way off track.

00:18:49.180 Yeah, well, I, the book is a little bit about my journey from being basically a very good progressive,

00:18:57.640 a reporter at the New York Times doing features, a member of the progressive movement in many ways,

00:19:06.080 and it follows me first being kind of ousted from the Times or finding it impossible to report on the most interesting stories of the day,

00:19:18.680 when there was basically a media blackout in 2020 and 2021 of anything interesting,

00:19:24.120 of Antifa taking over American city neighborhoods, of, you know, you name it, we couldn't write about it.

00:19:31.680 And, and, and as I start reporting on that, and as I start getting interested in that,

00:19:37.740 the movement sort of says, you can't be part of us if you want to, if you want to be interested in that stuff.

00:19:44.280 And, yeah, there's a chapter where I describe canceling someone, canceling a friend.

00:19:49.640 And, yeah, I don't think I come off as a hero in the book or as a heroic figure.

00:19:55.060 I definitely don't.

00:19:56.560 And I want to be honest.

00:19:58.120 You come off as a human being and honest.

00:20:00.640 I, I, I, I, I so admire people who, um, risk everything, um, knowingly, knowingly go out and say,

00:20:11.100 you know what, I've changed and I don't care if anybody believes me or not, but I can't live this way anymore.

00:20:18.340 And I don't think it's right.

00:20:20.420 And if nobody likes me, then nobody likes me.

00:20:22.980 And that's usually where gigantic success comes and where heroes begin.

00:20:28.860 Well, I, um, that's very funny.

00:20:35.820 I'm sorry.

00:20:36.800 I'm sorry, just being honest with you.

00:20:38.480 But I'm blushing.

00:20:39.920 Yeah.

00:20:40.160 Um, yeah, I mean, with the canceling, I was thinking, I want to do a chapter about cancel culture.

00:20:46.380 I want to report on how this works.

00:20:48.780 And I was looking for some, you know, I'm a features reporter, done investigations.

00:20:53.440 I was looking for someone to profile, to do this.

00:20:56.880 And I was thinking, you know what, the most honest thing is to write about when I was part of this.

00:21:02.300 And when I did one of these and, and the feeling of it and the feeling of the pleasure of it.

00:21:09.320 And the, the, I wanted to write something that wasn't a flat, um, that wasn't a flattening description of what it is to be part of that movement and, and part of canceling someone.

00:21:22.100 Because it's not just about rage.

00:21:23.720 It's also about loving your friends.

00:21:25.660 And it's a feeling of community and all of these things that make it complicated.

00:21:29.160 And, um, so I ended up just writing about that and then sort of the day that I didn't cancel someone, didn't cancel a friend, was the day that my time within the movement kind of abruptly ended.

00:21:43.660 Because being part of those mobs, we see them a little less frequently now, but being part of those mobs is a very important part of being with the new progressive moment and the new progressive movement.

00:21:56.380 Um, so you're right on saying that we're seeing maybe less, I think we're seeing some of the stuff with the Palestinian movement.

00:22:07.320 And I think in this next election, I hope and pray, uh, both sides will be reasonable and rational, but there are those who want to destroy the Republic.

00:22:15.920 Um, we are seeing less of it.

00:22:18.700 And I think it's this, this culture of, I hope, hating each other and, um, and just destroying one another.

00:22:29.460 It seems to be fading and people seem to be waking up to common sense, but, uh, I know you agree.

00:22:37.740 It's not happening necessarily on the upper levels.

00:22:41.740 Yeah, I think that there's two things we're on.

00:22:45.600 I think in part, we're seeing the revolution has definitely quieted down.

00:22:50.100 We're not seeing the BLM protests slash riots in the streets anymore.

00:22:55.100 It's definitely quieter.

00:22:56.460 But I think in part, that's because of the success of the revolution.

00:22:59.560 I think it has so woven into our institutions and into our, um, into our universities, our newsrooms, our sense-making institutions, that, that it doesn't need to be as loud.

00:23:11.880 It doesn't need to announce itself.

00:23:13.360 And actually, it's beneficial to say, it's over now.

00:23:18.280 It's all really quiet.

00:23:19.580 Nothing changed.

00:23:20.860 There's no, it's very beneficial to the movement to sort of pretend like it never even really happened.

00:23:25.960 And so I think that's happening.

00:23:27.940 I think a lot has changed.

00:23:31.120 Well, yeah.

00:23:31.380 Don't you think?

00:23:31.820 I mean, when you, when you mentioned the universities, um, in media, we were just talking about this earlier.

00:23:37.580 Media is activism now.

00:23:40.000 That's what a journalist is and being taught in many schools, that you're an activist, um, that, uh, you know, you're fighting for a side.

00:23:49.640 No, a journalist is supposed to, A, be curious and not, I believe, not walk in with, this is the story I'm going to get.

00:24:00.080 Walk in maybe saying, this is a story I think I'm going to get, but be open to, holy cow, that's not the story at all.

00:24:07.760 And I don't think that happens very often.

00:24:10.940 To maintaining your curiosity.

00:24:13.160 I mean, it's the, it's the biggest challenge and the most important thing for a journalist to have is curiosity.

00:24:17.940 And it actually takes a lot for people who are by nature are curious.

00:24:23.980 The average journalist is a curious person who wants to learn about the world.

00:24:27.340 It takes a lot to tell that person, put on blinders.

00:24:30.860 Don't look at what's happening around you.

00:24:33.680 Don't, don't, don't look into COVID's origins, for example.

00:24:37.960 There was a media blackout on that for years.

00:24:40.240 That was the most interesting story.

00:24:41.540 I mean, in the COVID pandemic, to think that person shouldn't look into the origins, it takes a lot.

00:24:47.720 And that's where you have to see the success of the movement.

00:24:50.420 Because it's like, oh my gosh, this thing really won a lot of ways.

00:24:54.640 It took Americans, America's best reporters and made them scared to write about the most interesting stories.

00:25:00.520 It's amazing.

00:25:02.040 So what, what is going to, you know, you, you say that this is a human condition.

00:25:08.280 You know, we're, we're monkeys.

00:25:09.780 What stops us from being monkeys?

00:25:13.080 What, what is it that, um.

00:25:16.920 I think liberalism, like broadly speaking, not conservative liberal, but liberalism.

00:25:22.280 Yes.

00:25:22.860 Is the hardest.

00:25:23.980 Constitutional living.

00:25:26.140 Yeah.

00:25:27.060 Being friends with people who disagree with you and having dinner with them and, and being curious to things that might not help your political party.

00:25:36.120 Like these are really challenging things.

00:25:38.260 And I think we're backsliding a little into what is one part of human nature, which is tribalism, which is shouting and the threats of violence.

00:25:49.400 And I mean, you see it in the protest now with people chanting Intifada revolution.

00:25:54.660 There's only one solution.

00:25:55.880 I mean, these are called surveillance.

00:25:58.280 And that's human nature.

00:26:00.400 You know, the very hard thing is to maintain what we used to see on college campuses where it was sort of, um, peaceful protests and, um, people disagreeing and talking in normal ways.

00:26:11.940 That's, that's really hard.

00:26:13.860 I don't think the universities or our schools, though, encourage that.

00:26:19.040 You, you, you can't politely disagree.

00:26:22.600 Um, you, you, you know, uh, I talk to kids and conservatives in school all the time that are, you know, I say this, but I believe this.

00:26:32.620 Otherwise, I'm out.

00:26:35.120 Um, and in this, what's really, truly frightening is what's happening in our medical schools.

00:26:41.920 Oh, man.

00:26:42.860 Did you read that?

00:26:44.260 Yeah.

00:26:45.080 The Beacon story?

00:26:46.100 Yeah.

00:26:47.180 It is terrifying what is happening.

00:26:49.440 I mean, this is, this is what happened in the 1920s and 30s in places like Germany and even here in America with our sterilization. 0.59

00:27:00.300 You cannot do that in medicine.

00:27:04.040 Well, the movement has very effectively, and I write about this in a couple of chapters about how the movement has, has taken concepts like merit or individualism or hard work and turn those into inherently racist concepts is the idea of what they'd say.

00:27:23.260 And it's a very bizarre thing to say that, right?

00:27:26.580 Like that individualism and merit are not racist ideas and it's not, and it's actually sort of racist to say that they are like, these aren't like white ideas.

00:27:37.740 That's a sort of racist thing to argue, but that is what the, the modern progressive has been arguing and very successfully.

00:27:44.320 And so you saw, I have a chapter about San Francisco in the book and you saw in San Francisco, the, um, banning of eighth grade algebra, the sort of accelerated math, because to offer accelerated math.

00:27:56.580 To public school kids was to be racist.

00:27:59.700 And it, that makes no sense. 0.98

00:28:01.400 Like if, if we just are honest and take it at face value, that's ridiculous.

00:28:05.820 And, and now we're seeing that ideology, not just, I mean, San Francisco is five years ahead of the rest of the country, but we're seeing that now basically in all of our institutions, including yeah, medical schools.

00:28:17.480 And the idea that the MCAT is not the be all and end all.

00:28:21.060 And, and that in fact, maybe the MCAT should be the third thing on the list that we look at, like maybe the fourth thing.

00:28:28.240 And that's a really strange moment we're in.

00:28:32.660 And, and I don't even think it's purely racial.

00:28:34.760 It's not as though it's that there, there's just a preference for racial minorities.

00:28:39.680 And it's, it's the interesting thing, but particularly the Free Beacon story is I think a lot of it is just ideological.

00:28:47.220 It's who writes the best DEI statement, who writes the best.

00:28:51.260 Cause the racial demographics, it's not like they're changing that dramatically a little bit.

00:28:55.580 It's for sure.

00:28:56.420 Like anti-Asian discrimination is something that you can track, but it's mostly that all of a sudden ideology has become, um, like the most important thing on your application.

00:29:05.340 I hate to say it like this, but I think it's, I think it's true. 1.00

00:29:09.200 Just as rape is not about sex, uh, the cries of racism most times are not really about race.

00:29:16.520 It's about power.

00:29:18.280 Exactly.

00:29:19.200 Nellie Bowles is, uh, with us.

00:29:20.660 The name of her book, well worth a read is Morning After the Revolution.

00:29:26.220 You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.

00:29:28.600 Check out the full show podcast to listen to the rest of this interview.

00:29:32.000 We have, uh, uh, Bill Isaley on with us.

00:29:36.340 He's been on with us before.

00:29:37.380 He's a California state assemblyman.

00:29:39.080 He's a Republican and he put something up that he knew didn't have a chance to survive.

00:29:45.620 I believe.

00:29:46.580 Um, however, he wanted, he wanted everyone to see that every single Democrat in the California

00:29:56.000 house would, would vote against his bill.

00:30:00.360 And I'm going to let you tell, uh, let him tell what the bill was.

00:30:04.500 It just failed this week.

00:30:06.760 Bill, welcome to the program.

00:30:08.480 Hi, Glenn.

00:30:09.140 Thank you for having me.

00:30:11.140 Yeah.

00:30:11.700 So we, I put this bill up.

00:30:13.980 First of all, it was inspired by two specific cases that we had coming out of the state of

00:30:17.480 California.

00:30:17.800 One, Bill Maluchin reported Colombian illegal immigrant raped a 14 year old girl, went to 0.84

00:30:24.180 prison in California. 0.76

00:30:26.040 ICE wanted him.

00:30:27.220 They wanted him immediately after a sentence so they could deport him under California law

00:30:32.480 or sanctuary state law.

00:30:33.620 It is illegal for the sheriff or any law enforcement official to honor an ICE request or to cooperate

00:30:40.540 in any way with immigration officials.

00:30:42.220 See, they put him back in the streets and he was picked up later in Boston, Massachusetts,

00:30:49.100 uh, where they eventually deported him.

00:30:51.560 And that's what first inspired this bill.

00:30:55.020 It said, why does the state of California's laws protect pedophiles?

00:30:58.440 Why would we do this?

00:31:00.080 So that's what I wrote.

00:31:00.920 The law, uh, is very specific.

00:31:03.060 All the law says is we're rolling back sanctuary state as it applies to child sex offenders.

00:31:08.840 If you've been convicted of committing a child, uh, a sex offense against the minor, you are

00:31:13.860 required to comply with, uh, immigration official orders.

00:31:17.040 So it doesn't open, it doesn't open up sanctuary state for anything else other than convicted

00:31:24.740 pedophiles.

00:31:26.920 Yes.

00:31:27.400 And that was by design.

00:31:28.580 Of course, if I was running a place, I'd reverse the whole policy, but I said, you know

00:31:32.660 what?

00:31:33.320 We're only 18 out of 80 in here.

00:31:35.780 Uh, we're not controlling policy.

00:31:38.040 Let's get them on record.

00:31:39.340 Let's expose the Democrat party for who they are.

00:31:42.560 And I knew that putting this up, they would vote it down and then we could show the public

00:31:47.440 they are more concerned about protecting illegal immigrant pedophiles than they are about doing 0.74

00:31:52.680 the right thing and protecting American citizens. 0.55

00:31:54.460 That's who these people are.

00:31:56.200 So I've said, people started calling me.

00:31:58.580 They do not believe this.

00:31:59.860 Like it's almost so crazy.

00:32:01.320 People don't believe it.

00:32:02.520 That's where we are.

00:32:03.840 And then just last week going, we had a guy, legal immigrant found he had a rape van driving 0.99

00:32:10.260 up and down the streets of LA, picking up women and young children and raping them in a 1.00

00:32:15.000 van. 0.97

00:32:15.440 He's a illegal immigrant and he is currently protected under our state laws from deportation.

00:32:20.760 We will not deport him from California. 0.85

00:32:24.760 You know, I've California has just become depraved.

00:32:30.280 Hollywood is a big source of this to where it is honestly depraved and evil what's going

00:32:41.020 on.

00:32:41.360 And when you have a whole bunch of representatives of the people and they won't deport convicted

00:32:52.100 pedophiles and cooperate with the federal government to get them out of the state.

00:32:59.180 Not we're not talking about anything else. 0.90

00:33:00.820 I'd like to evict all of them. 0.93

00:33:03.300 But pedophiles, what are the what are the voters saying? 0.90

00:33:09.500 Is there any uproar about this at all in California?

00:33:13.560 Well, the problem with California, Glenn, is there's so many bad policies, so many bad

00:33:17.880 bills.

00:33:18.220 We voted on hundreds of bills just this week.

00:33:20.440 It's hard for people to even keep up with what's happening.

00:33:23.660 So that is why I try to concentrate.

00:33:26.120 Let's just focus on one issue.

00:33:27.600 Just one.

00:33:28.640 Let's focus on this.

00:33:29.700 And luckily, thanks to you, thanks to other media outlets, they are covering this issue

00:33:33.460 now and people are being waking up to it.

00:33:36.000 But if you watch the video of what I forced the vote on the floor, they wouldn't even let

00:33:40.660 me describe the bill.

00:33:41.800 As soon as I said this bill would roll back sanctuary state for for pedophiles, they cut my microphone

00:33:47.020 off.

00:33:48.260 It's like they don't even want the public to know what they're doing up there.

00:33:52.100 That that is when they talk about democracy.

00:33:54.540 Show them that video.

00:33:55.420 So that's the Democrat version of democracy.

00:33:58.180 Oh, I have to get that video.

00:33:59.620 We will play that video.

00:34:00.640 Bowie, one of our producers.

00:34:02.380 If you can find that video, is it on your website or anywhere?

00:34:05.440 What would we look for?

00:34:06.260 It's on our Twitter.

00:34:09.320 You can see it on our Twitter.

00:34:10.600 We put the video up.

00:34:11.820 And what's your Twitter handle here?

00:34:14.280 It's at Bill Asaley.

00:34:15.480 Okay.

00:34:17.040 We will expose that and I'll retweet that.

00:34:20.960 That's horrific.

00:34:23.960 It is.

00:34:24.560 The only way to describe what is happening is true evil and then those who are intentionally

00:34:38.120 blinding themselves because it's too horrific to look at and they don't want to believe their

00:34:45.160 side is truly that evil.

00:34:48.920 Yeah, that's that's 100 percent right.

00:34:50.860 And you know what I take away with?

00:34:51.920 I mean, I'm served with these people every day in the Capitol.

00:34:55.760 We did this vote unfazed cavalier.

00:34:59.680 It was just it's just another thing on the day and they just resumed walking around. 0.96

00:35:05.620 They don't give a damn. 0.77

00:35:07.420 They just don't. 0.86

00:35:08.180 It is all about party and politics.

00:35:10.600 And, you know, the reason they voted against it, I bet you some of them did not even know

00:35:14.600 what they're voting of just because I'm a Republican and I proposed a motion by instinct.

00:35:19.980 They just voted down without consideration.

00:35:22.720 Did you have any Democrat come to you in quiet and say,

00:35:29.680 look, Bill, I understand what you're doing and, you know, this is sick, but it will open

00:35:35.060 up the door to all other things.

00:35:36.520 Did you get anybody to privately say that to you?

00:35:40.820 No.

00:35:41.280 In fact, I get disdain and looks and why are you doing this?

00:35:46.460 And we this is, you know, they get mad at me for forcing the issue.

00:35:50.780 That's the response I get from from the Democrat colleagues.

00:35:54.060 And I'll be honest, not not on this one.

00:35:56.440 But when I do similar things, I'll be honest with you, Glenn, I get some pushback from

00:35:59.620 my own side because we have weak Republicans, too, who are trying to do deals or pass something.

00:36:06.020 And why are you making them mad?

00:36:07.880 We have to work with them.

00:36:09.020 I'm not working with these people.

00:36:10.220 I will not work with these people.

00:36:11.560 I'm here to defeat these people, not to work with these people.

00:36:14.580 And we have to wake up on what a real opposition party looks like in this country.

00:36:18.960 We have controlled opposition in our party.

00:36:22.500 And I'm not about that.

00:36:23.900 Where are you from in California?

00:36:26.420 Is your seat safe?

00:36:29.300 I'm from Riverside County.

00:36:31.200 I was born and raised here in Southern California.

00:36:34.280 My parents are immigrants from Lebanon.

00:36:36.580 And I love this country and I love this state.

00:36:38.740 And I'm not willing to give up on it.

00:36:41.200 I hope your seat is safe because you are you are a crusader and we need those.

00:36:45.760 I don't know if you saw what Tim Scott said this week.

00:36:47.700 Did you read his?

00:36:49.880 You did or didn't?

00:36:51.680 I didn't.

00:36:52.280 I've been stuck locked up in the Capitol.

00:36:54.380 I know.

00:36:54.840 I know.

00:36:55.560 He said because he put his hat in the ring to run for the head of the Senate for the Republicans.

00:37:02.120 And he said no more working together.

00:37:05.820 This cannot be done.

00:37:07.620 He said it is time for a sea change of the Republicans or we will not save the Republic.

00:37:15.120 And you you sound very much like him.

00:37:17.840 And I agree 100 percent.

00:37:19.660 Thank you.

00:37:20.380 I think there's a new type of conservatism rising.

00:37:23.320 But I think it's it's it's going to take a generation.

00:37:26.600 Define it.

00:37:27.260 I think the new form of conservative is like what you said.

00:37:30.980 Understanding what the principles of this country are, what the Republic is, what a constitutional Republic is, what limited power is.

00:37:38.060 And then going into government as for service, service to others, not service to yourself.

00:37:44.180 And that's what I see a lot with politics.

00:37:45.940 It should not be a lifelong career.

00:37:47.500 You go there to represent the people and check the power of the government and check the power of the other parties.

00:37:55.140 And I don't think that that has been the stance of the Republican Party.

00:37:59.520 It has been to do the work of the donors or do the work of the business, not the work of the people every day up there.

00:38:06.740 Glenn, I'll tell you, it's not easy.

00:38:08.120 You're surrounded by lobbyists and big business and big money.

00:38:11.540 And you you forget who you are.

00:38:13.800 You forget what your purpose is.

00:38:15.980 And a lot of times I'm the lot like I'm the guy not liked in the room because I'm the one standing up for everyone who's not there.

00:38:22.440 The public.

00:38:23.100 Yeah.

00:38:23.240 When everyone's pressuring you to do the wrong thing, it's not easy, but we need people with the right character in public office.

00:38:29.540 And so if you're listening, I would say, please run.

00:38:32.400 If you've accomplished something in your life, you have good character, you raised a family, run for office.

00:38:38.260 I see Glenn up here.

00:38:40.060 It is staffers.

00:38:41.500 It's interns who become staffers who then run for office or activists or Marxists.

00:38:47.400 I don't see normal everyday people running for office anymore.

00:38:50.700 And I think that's a mistake.

00:38:51.720 Yeah, I know in Utah, I talked to some people.

00:38:54.280 They said they're now the lobbyists are now running just to muck things up to get the the weaklings in.

00:39:04.540 It's it's it's just disgusting what's happening.

00:39:08.320 Bill, thank you very much for everything you're doing.

00:39:10.120 Appreciate it.

00:39:10.740 Keep checking in with us.

00:39:12.340 Thank you, Glenn.

00:39:13.420 You bet.

00:39:14.000 God bless.

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